News from September 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan House Energy and Commerce Committee Leaders today requested information from Volkswagen and the Environmental Protection Agency regarding Volkswagen’s alleged efforts to circumvent emissions requirement for certain models of diesel engine passenger vehicles. Today’s requests...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: Justice Department Sues Gates-Chili Central School District for Violating the Service Animal Requirements of the ADA.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: Dr. Robert Hadley Gross Faces Up to 10 Years in Federal Prison and Agrees to Pay Nearly $2 Million in Restitution.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of its ongoing Disrupter Series, the House Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today reviewed the sharing economy and how its growth is transforming the U.S. economy. Members today examined issues impacting the sharing...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today released a manager’s amendment ahead of today’s opening statements for the markup of H.R. 8, the North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 2015. The bill up for consideration before the committee has taken...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: WILMINGTON - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced today in federal court, Senior United States District Judge James C. Fox sentenced ROBERT EARL MAYS, 58, from the District of Columbia, to 125 months imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release. On July 6, 2015 a federal jury convicted...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Rana J. Clarizio, 46, of Oak Brook, Illinois, and formerly of Kittery, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to 366 days years in prison and three years of supervised release for bankruptcy fraud. She was also ordered to pay about $185,000 in restitution. She pled guilty on May 11, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: ELEPHANT BUTTE, N.M.-The Rio Grande Project’s irrigation season is scheduled to end next week when the release of water from Caballo Reservoir will stop.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Anchorage- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced today it will hold an oil and gas lease sale within the 22.1-million acre National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) on Wednesday, Nov. 18, in Anchorage, Alaska. The Notice of Sale will be published in tomorrow’s Federal Register.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a St. Louis, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The owner of a Glendora egg donation and surrogacy company who admitted defrauding would-be parents, egg donors and surrogate mothers over the course of more than three years was sentenced this morning to 18 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Timothy Lamon Cavender, Jr., 26, of Duquesne, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for heroin trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Barry Lee Bowser Jr., 52, of Bakersfield, was sentenced today to 21 months in prison for shining a powerful green laser at the pilot of a Kern County Sheriff’s helicopter, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Justice Department Reaches Agreement with San Juan County, New Mexico, to Improve Accessibility.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Michael Sheriff Scott, 35, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 77 months in prison for unlawful possession of a firearm, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: BOISE -Marcus Emilio Villarreal, 27, of Caldwell, Idaho, was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Villarreal to serve five years of supervised release following his release from prison. Villarreal pleaded guilty on July 6, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Glen Echo, Md. - Starting Friday, Oct. 2, 2015, Clara Barton National Historic Site will be closed to the public for a rehabilitation project. The closure is expected to last about one year, and is necessary to ensure the safety of visitors.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: To be sure, I am disappointed that our efforts to improve employee satisfaction at DHS were not reflected Department-wide in this year’s results of the Federal Employee Viewpoint survey. I am disappointed but not discouraged. We will not give up. We know that improving employee satisfaction across a 22-component, 240,000-person department takes time.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 Washington, DC – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) awarded a contract to Colorado State University to create technology to defend against large and sophisticated ...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Violent extremism - that which is inspired by foreign terrorist groups and that which is rooted in a range of domestic-based radical ideologies - pose a persistent and unpredictable threat to our homeland. Countering violent extremism has become a key focus of DHS’s work to secure the homeland. Last ...
